Since signing with G-Unit Records in June 2005 M.O.P. has been seated comfortably in the biggest crew in Hip-Hop, and also relatively unheard. While Billy Danze, Lil Fame, and producer/manager Laze E have released street albums like 2006s Ghetto Warfare, the Brownsville, Brooklyn veterans have not come close to that Ante Up / Cold As Is status that they achieved in 2000. Perhaps, in additional to waiting their turn on the G-Unit and Roc rosters, its the ever-changing climate of Hip-Hop and the radio DJs who spin it.

Over half a dozen plates of shrimp at Manhattans Da Vinci Hotel Restaurant, Billy and Laze tackle the criticism head on, just as youd expect from the Mash Out Posse. The group reminds readers that theyve never wavered from the blueprint, and never will. The militant MCs also emphasize that since G-Unit has become the target of some industry hate, theyve never felt more belonging in the coalition. Just as their classic adlibs say, Mount up! M.O.P. is in the building, and if youve got a clever title for their next album, you can join the original back street boys.

AllHipHop.com: Realistically, will the album come out this year?

Billy Danze: Yeah, definitely. Thats the truth.

AllHipHop.com: Can you really promise to your fans an album in 2007, honestly?

Billy Danze: Ill tell you what, [in] 2007, if you dont get an M.O.P. album, you will get a gang of M.O.P. records. Like, I will give you an M.O.P. record, I dont care about makin money. I just wanna make sure that I give yall what you want; I give you guys what you want. I dont care what the situation is. Like theres a dude, I dont know this dudes name, Ive been seeing this dude for about 10, 11 years at every M.O.P. show on the East Coast. I cant let that dude down; I love that dude.

AllHipHop.com: Is there a tentative date?

Billy Danze: Not as of right now because were still getting situated with the beginning of the assault first, and then well let the public decide when it should come out.

AllHipHop.com: I know a lot of people questioned the move to G-Unit. Are you concerned with people saying sell out?

Billy Danze: How you be a sellout? I mean, Im not on its the same like when I went to Roc-A-Fella; I got the same s**t. But like, I didnt go to Roc-A-Fella to make records like Jay. I didnt go to G-Unit to make records like 50 or [Lloyd] Banks or [Young] Buck or none of em. We always do traditional M.O.P. music. Like Im sure a lot of people, they are wondering, Is it different? Are they gonna change their style or anything like that? Well never change. The thing about MOP is we made music from the heart cause nobody else was doin it. And nobody still aint doin it! They cant do it the way we do it. This is what we provide to the industry, to the listeners and were always gonna do the same. Were always going to do the same thing. It dont matter where we at. We could be at Turk and Cheese Records. Its still the same s**t; its still M.O.P.

AllHipHop.com: I just think Mobb Deep lost credibility. Many of their long-time fans were scratching their heads.

Billy Danze: We aint Mobb Deep. And I dont think that happened with Mobb Deep. Mobb Deep always made music like that.

Laze: Hold on, let me tell you something: Mobb Deep is one of the most legendary groups that ever touched the microphone in Hip-Hop. The discussion about Mobb Deep, you know, the dudes Prodigy, Havoc, those are two talented dudes remember these cats were makin records in 91. You know what Im sayin? Peer Pressure was on 4th & Broadway in 91, dog. So, like aint nobody can tell me anything about Mobb Deep.

AllHipHop.com: I see what youre saying, but they lost a critical portion of their fanbase with not only the album, but with their behavior.

Billy Danze: How loyal are you, if you got a problem with me putting myself in a winning position? You my man or not? You riding with me or not? Im trying to win; Im trying to take care of these kids. You got a f**kin problem with that? F**k you. Theres no way you can tell me that you got a problem with me going over here getting some money on this money train. You want me to let this money train pass? You mad at me cause I didnt let the money train pass?

Laze: Thats the motherf**ckin money train. Thirty million records in three years. [Laughs]

Billy Danze: Cause I didnt let this money train pass? You mad at me? Im still giving you what I gave you. Im not bulls**ttin you, side stepping, Im not doin what you dont expect me to do or what you got in your head sayin like, I know when this album come out, its gonna be like 50 Cent all over the record. I did two songs, no like one, maybe two songs with 50 on this album.

Laze: I think only one is gonna make the album.

Billy Danze: We recorded like damn near 80 songs. 50s a dope dude, so f**k, yeah Id like do a record with him. Half the rappers, thats in the street thats influenced by M.O.P., would like to do a f**kin record with him too. You not gonna bulls**t me. A spade is a f**kin spade and this is a nice money train and Im on f**king board. Now, yall can kiss my ass on both sides. So f**k it.

AllHipHop.com: I have to ask this: is Hip-Hop dead?

Laze: Hell no.

Billy Danze: No, Hip-Hop cant die.

Laze: You talking to n***as that went all around the world, n***as that been to Eastern Europe, n***as that been all over the planet. Hip-Hop is alive and kicking. What yall feed us in America, the propaganda that is fed in America, you do let a little bulls**t through the cracks because Hip-Hop has turned into what Disco was in the early 80s. Hip-Hop, itself, is not dead because the essence of Hip Hop you talking to, Im gonna date myself, to a n***a that knows what it is Hip-Hop is turning something and making something new out of it.

Billy Danze: For those not on the block, youve been absent. In the new landscape of rap which includes cocaine rap and snap music, do you think MOP is still relevant?

Billy Danze: Well, see this is the thing about anything in life. Like black and white; you need the wrong shit, so you know whats right; you need whats dope, so you know whats wack; you need whats wack, so you know whats dope. So, were always going to be relevant. You know what I mean? MOP We got hard-core like die hard fans. So, theyre always going to be there and they always need to be supplied with what we got for them. Relevant? Yeah, of course.

Laze: I think the difference with MOP is that MOP makes shit that nobody else can make. You cant make MOP. Like a Motherf***** cant fake an MOP record. Motherf**** will look at the MOP record and be like motherf***** fakin it, you tryin to be like MOP, stop that sh*t you sound corny.

Billy Danze: Its not working [Laughs]

Laze: We the only motherf*ckers thats making this kind of crack in this store. MOP shit is our own crack. We make our own specific tailor-made crack. We will whip your ass in a special kind of way. It will Youre a** will be whooped tailor-made a** whooping .You aint gonna get a general ass-whooping, you will get a specific-ass whooping from MOP.

AllHipHop.com: What about New York Hip-Hop?

Laze: Them n***as lost. [Laughs]

Billy Danze: Nah, let me tell you something, New York City is dope. Please make a f**kin note of that one. I hate to say it and Laze gon try cover my mouth when I say this, but these gay-ass motherf**kin radio n***as, like thats what it is because whatever you fed is what you think is dope. If you dont hear a Smif-N-Wessun, if you dont hear Mobb Deep, if you dont hear Pharaohe Monch, then you believe that whatever you hear is dope. You have no options, you have nothing to you know what Im saying? This is New York. I got homies from Down South, from Texas that come to visit me, artists that I work with and they like, Damn yo, [we] havent left home. Dog, we hear everything that we hear on radio. So whats happening is they pushing [us] out, they not giving artists from New York a chance. Theres dope dudes in New York. We invent s**t, you know what I mean? And reinvent s**t, and reinvent some s**t. So, you cant tell me New York Hip-Hop is dead. Its just them gay-ass n***as on the radio.

Laze: I think the creative process of Hip-Hop is corrupted in New York. You cant make dope Hip-Hop

Billy Danze: Let me tell you, what they do is they dont play their record on the radio but you can pull up on them at the light and they be bangin your s**t. Thatll cause me to go to the trunk to get the golf club and smooth them the f**k out. You know what I mean?

Laze: Translation [Laughs]

Billy Danze: Translation: Kiss my ass on both sides [Laughs]. I dont knock em for what they do because thats their job. We did an interview, before, with Miss Jones. And Miss Jones she was like, well we didnt get into an argument. But, I wasnt seeing what she was saying and she wasnt seeing what I was sayin.

Billy Danze: Thats why I couldnt argue with her real hard. [Laughs] If you feed these kids one thing, thats all they know. I got a 12 year-old son at home, Im arguing with him about is Rakim doper than Young Dro. Like, whats the argument, here? I like Young Dro. I like him, I dont dislike the man. But, Rakim is incredible, dude. If you listen to Rakim records right now, Im talking the joints from back you still start hearin some s**t [that] I didnt even know he said that. How he said that then and they just started sayin that now. Incredible. Hes incredible.

Billy Danze: I mean if youre not a vegetarian, thats your thing. Like you wanna eat meat twice a week, motherf**ka [Laughs] My only thing is that you cant say New York City aint dope.

AllHipHop.com: Judging from the Lloyd Banks album, you guys dont do too much collaboration with fellow G-Unit artists

Billy Danze: Dont say it like that, all fellow G-Unit artists. We just dont rap with anybody from [any group]. We dont wanna like if you had gotten too much M.O.P., maybe it got to the point where youre like, you know what, its too much. I like doin this s**t, like, I like bein on the stage, I like being in the studio with the homies creating s**t. I dont want this s**t to burn out. This is all I got, homie.

AllHipHop.com: The perception is that the G-Unit stock is falling

Billy Danze: Well, I mean, I dont know. This is the biggest record label here right now. So, how do we say the stock is falling? Like between you and me, you might feel that way, youre a little bit more inside than the average consumer.

Laze: We fit in right now. We good. See, we werent good with G-unit when they were all popular [Laughs]. Now that theres an anti-G-unit goin on, we in now. Lets go GGGGG-UNIT! [Laughs].

AllHipHop.com: Content-wise, what does the album cover since it doesnt have a title?

Billy Danze: We always what we give you Its real simple. M.O.P. represent that part of society that people try to forget about, so we bring that to you. Like, you dont have to come to Brownsville to know whats it like, you get the M.O.P. album we takin you on an adventure through Brownsville.

We stay in our lane, we do what we gotta do. As far as the album go, as I said, maybe we need help in terms of titling the album. Like, I wanna make sure everybody like especially the M.O.P. fans help participate with what were doing . Just send me some names. Hit up AllHipHop.com and let em know. So, all M.O.P. fans, anybody that wanna help us out, whatever, and help us title the album.

AllHipHop.com: We should do a contest?

Laze: Nah, we not doing a contest. Im not giving them any motherf**kin money. [Laughs]

Billy Danze: The person whoever come up with the name that well use, well do something nice for him [or her], have em come hang out with M.O.P., give em mad props. And you know, down in history, you titled that album. We need everybody pullin for us.